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Brussels action on working hours

The European Commission has started legal proceedings against the UK for failure to fully implement the working time directive. This responding to complaint from biggest manufacturing union, Amicus, on rights to breaks and holidays, measurement of time worked voluntarily above normal working time, and exclusion of night-shift overtime hours from the normal hours count.

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